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The authors acknowledge A. Bogdanov and C. Tung (Massachusetts General Hospital) for discussions; T. Rouault and J. Harford (National Institutes of Health) for supplying the plasmid; and S. Bredow (Massachusetts General Hospital) for doing the RT–PCR analysis. This work was funded in part by National Institutes of Health grant P41 RR 05959.
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Weissleder, R., Moore, A., Mahmood, U. et al. In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of transgene expression. Nat Med 6, 351–354 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/73219
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